Subj : Personal emails deleted
To   : Digital Man
From : Nightfox
Date : Tue Jan 11 2022 14:05:11

  Re: Personal emails deleted
  By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Tue Jan 11 2022 12:50 pm

 >> It's been a while since I posted about this, but I was coming back
 >> around to this and just tried using "smbutil v" and "smbutil s".  I've
 >> confirmed the max_age value is set to 0 on my mail.shd.

 DM> If you've ever used a POP3 or IMAP mail client to read your BBS mail, it
 DM> very easily could have deleted the messages. 

I had set up Mozilla Thunderbird on my main PC to get mail from my BBS, and though I rarely use Thunderbird, I suppose it's possible I ran Thunderbird at some point and it perhaps deleted the emails.

 >> going back to 2011.  For deleted messages, I'm curious what exactly
 >> I'd be looking for when using "smbutil v"?

 DM> An "attr" value that includes the DELETE flag, e.g.
 DM> attr 0012h (READ, DELETE)

I see, thanks.

 >> Also, is there a way to use smbutil to search for text within the
 >> messages and display the matching messages?  Or can smbutil dump all
 >> messages in a messagebase?

 DM> 'smbutil r -1000 /sbbs/data/mail' would dump (up to) 1000 message from the
 DM> mail base (you can specify whatever number you like for the number of
 DM> messages). You could then search the output stream (e.g. pipe through
 DM> 'grep' or redirect to a file to be searched using a text viewer/editor). 

Ah, thanks.  I was using smbutil a bit and saw the r option, but it was interactive.  With the -1000 option, it dumps out all those messages - Just waht I was looking for.

Nightfox

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